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Transportation is 100 or 1000x the market that lawn mowing or carpet cleaning is.
by WhompingWindows 8y ago
Transportation is 100 or 1000x the market that lawn mowing or carpet cleaning is.
- joejerryronnie 8y agoBut pehaps infinity more challenging
- wpietri 8y agoYup. Our tolerance for failure is orders of magnitude lower for household appliances than cars. My robot vaccum can't make it a week without doing something where it needs human intervention. I'm also very forgiving in my interactions with it: I move out of the way, I pick up things in front of it, and I just ignore when it bumps into me. That tolerance goes away when it's a high-powered 1-ton machine with the potential to kill dozens with one error, one that has to work flawlessly in a very quirky environment tuned for human perceptions and expert human users. There is no piece of software (or software-driven hardware) I've used where I'd say: "Yes, this is at a level where I'd trust it unsupervised when lives are at stake." I think anybody expecting robot cars in the next few years will be wildly disappointed.